This past week was productive to some degree. The temperature and humidity was reasonable all week, which led to some reasonable workouts. I tried something new with my intervals on Tuesday instead of running 1, ½, ½, 1, I ran the miles in the middle and the ½ on either end. I was able to run splits that are more consistent and felt good during and after the work out. I needed the next couple of runs to be easy or at a reasonable pace which set me up for a good workout for hills on Friday (7-9). I was very pleased with my hill splits. The hill was not extremely steep but was a 50ft incline over a ¼ mile. I wanted to and was able to maintain ¼ splits that were about 1:30-1:35. This is just a little slower that McMillan running says that I should be running my splits if I want to run a 3:05 marathon. I am truly okay with this since I am just starting to put this type of work out into my routine and it is still very early in the training process.
However, my Saturday run was not good at all,…I had to walk during a run. This was very difficult for me to do did not like the fact that I did it but it was almost necessary. I thought I had got out early enough to not deal with the humidity and heat but I was wrong. As I said last week that heat is my kryptonite, I really think that it is the humidity. I brought water on the run and had a regiment that I have done in the past and had no problems staying hydrated but this time I had an epic fail. It was past Blakeley when I had to walk. It was not a mental thing to walk but more of a physical thing. I had not felt that way on a training run for as long as I can remember. I really bothers me that I walked I never walk so this week I think I will try something else out and see how that goes. I did not run on Sunday though I had planed too. I just felt whipped out so I took the day off, I still got over 50 miles in so there was no need to try for 60+.
This week I have the Bull Run on Saturday (7-17), so I will not be running a hard to much this week. I would like to run under 19min be in the top 5 overall and first in my age group, we will see how that goes.
runpd
Monday, July 12, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Heat is Like my Kryptonite
On Sunday (7-4) I had another lackluster performance in a race. This time I made many excuses for the performance.
First, it was very humid to add to a high dew point of 65+. The temperature at the start was in the 70’s. This does not usually mean that a bad race will be had but it does make a runner less comfortable and might not have the best race. I am the type of runner that likes the weather (humidity and dew point lower). For me it has been difficult to race well in these conditions.
Second, I did not take it easy and actually train for this race. As I said in the last post I had just returned from a vacation in which I did not run enough miles to maintain a certain level of fitness that I would have liked. To try to combat this I did not back off and take the week easy. I ran the most miles I have run in weeks leading up to the race. Therefore, my body was a little tired and was not “ready” to run at the pace I wanted too.
I was not completely disappointed to have the time (33:27), what my problem is that all week I did not feel strong enough mentally and physically to make it through some of the runs. I had to force my self to run when my body did not want too. This concerns me the most about the time off that I was forced to take at the beginning of the year because of my foot. Last I checked I was over 400miles behind my mileage from the previous years (2009 and 2008), and I was even 100+miles behind my 2007 year.
So what does this mean to my running, I am not sure. I know that my times are suffering from the lack of mileage and that is depressing since last year was so full of good times. I keep telling myself that I need to be patient and trust myself, that what I am running and how I am training now will be beneficial later in the year.
runpd
First, it was very humid to add to a high dew point of 65+. The temperature at the start was in the 70’s. This does not usually mean that a bad race will be had but it does make a runner less comfortable and might not have the best race. I am the type of runner that likes the weather (humidity and dew point lower). For me it has been difficult to race well in these conditions.
Second, I did not take it easy and actually train for this race. As I said in the last post I had just returned from a vacation in which I did not run enough miles to maintain a certain level of fitness that I would have liked. To try to combat this I did not back off and take the week easy. I ran the most miles I have run in weeks leading up to the race. Therefore, my body was a little tired and was not “ready” to run at the pace I wanted too.
I was not completely disappointed to have the time (33:27), what my problem is that all week I did not feel strong enough mentally and physically to make it through some of the runs. I had to force my self to run when my body did not want too. This concerns me the most about the time off that I was forced to take at the beginning of the year because of my foot. Last I checked I was over 400miles behind my mileage from the previous years (2009 and 2008), and I was even 100+miles behind my 2007 year.
So what does this mean to my running, I am not sure. I know that my times are suffering from the lack of mileage and that is depressing since last year was so full of good times. I keep telling myself that I need to be patient and trust myself, that what I am running and how I am training now will be beneficial later in the year.
runpd
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